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    The Social Nature of Mental Illness » Read Now

    by Len Bowers. 222 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Debate over the true nature of mental illness is polarized between those arguing for a social and those arguing for a physiological etiology. Psychiatry finds itself at the center of this debate, its status called into question by those who claim that to treat mental disorder as a physiological...
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    Classification and Diagnosis of Psychological Abnormality » Read Now

    by Susan Cave. 211 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Psychologists have attempted to define psychological abnormality in a number of ways including statistical infrequency and deviation from social norms. Susan Cave discusses and compares some of the attempts made and examines their limitations.
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    Family Experiences with Mental Illness » Read Now

    by Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache. 187 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Tessler and Gamache provide substantial research on the impact of mental illness on the family through interviews conducted with hundreds of family members between 1989 and 1997. According to the authors, how families experience the mental illness of a relative depends on many social factors...
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    Families and Mental Illness: New Directions in Professional Practice » Read Now

    by Diane T. Marsh. 274 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    This work is the most comprehensive volume to focus on new directions in professional practice with families of people with mental illness. It offers a multidisciplinary systems-oriented examination of theory, research, and practice in the area. Unique features include a consideration of life-span...
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    The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness » Read Now

    by David A. Karp. 319 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one. Working from sixty extensive interviews, the author reveals striking...
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    Psychopathology » Read Now

    by Jonathan S. E. Hellewell, John D. Stirling. 176 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Psychopathology is a concise introduction to the major classes of adult mental illness. Beginning with a historical overview, the authors consider how mental abnormality can be defined, reviewing the main classification systems and the issues raised in classification and diagnosis. Schizophrenia...
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    Suffering Insanity: Psychoanalytic Essays on Psychosis » Read Now

    by R. D. Hinshelwood. 187 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    When madness is intolerable for sufferers, how do professional carers remain sane? Psychiatric institutions have always been places of fear and awe. Madness impacts on family, friends and relatives, but also those who provide a caring environment, whether in large institutions of the past, or...
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    Brave New Brain: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome » Read Now

    by Nancy C. Andreasen. 368 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the history...
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    Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness » Read Now

    by Jerry Floersch. 263 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and variety of models. But how are these models translated into real experience? How do caseworkers use both textbook and practical knowledge to assist...
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    Handbook on Ethnicity, Aging, and Mental Health » Read Now

    by Deborah K. Padgett. 347 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    This state-of-the-art, multi-disciplinary reference is the first to assess the empirical research and conceptual frameworks for understanding the mental health needs and services use of the ethnic elderly. Leading scholars, researchers, and clinicians in gerontology, epidemiology, psychiatry...
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    Managers and Mental Health: Mental Illness and the Workplace, in Public Personnel Management » Read Now

    by Richard L. Schott. 23 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Managers and Mental Health: Mental Illness and the Workplace by Richard L. Schott Mental illness is prevalent in modern society...locked away in insane asylums), mental...
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    Handbook of Mental Health and Mental Disorder among Black Americans » Read Now

    by Dorothy S. Ruiz, James P. Comer. 330 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    "This handbook brings together crucial information related to mental illness among black Americans by examining the impact of social structures and conditions on the mental health of blacks." Choice
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    Out of Bedlam: The Truth about Deinstitutionalization » Read Now

    by Ann Braden Johnson. 306 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...from the Front in the War Against Mental Illness xix CHAPTER...What Happened to the Myth that Mental Illness Is a Myth? 53...the Front in the War Against Mental Illness...

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